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I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know! And I'd say, I know, girl, buy you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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You look as scary as a buttered muffin.
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Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the
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You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)
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Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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